Yes, Liverpool draws millions of tourists and visitors each year for two main reasons: the Beatles and its breathtaking waterfront architecture. Plus there are a couple of famous football clubs whose history is laden with trophies, two cathedrals, several stately homes nearby, glorious parks and one of the most dramatic and unusual histories in Britain. Strewth!

On our Discover Liverpool tour we wind our way through the city centre, unravelling the mesmerising history of this great city, honouring the infamous local names (Ken Dodd, Bessie Braddock, Cilla Black, John Lennon, Raffa the Gaffer), heading to the waterfront for some of the most breathtaking imperial architecture in the country and eventually winding up in one of the Beatles’ old pubs.

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BOOK A TALK WITH MANCHESTER’S WITTIEST PUBLIC SPEAKER: ED GLINERT

If you don’t fancy a walk, book a talk. What a great idea for your social club, U3A group, Probus set, National Trust outfit, local history society; to book New Manchester Walks’ Ed Glinert to give an illustrated talk on one of a huge variety of subjects, especially on Peterloo what with the 200th anniversary in 2019, for which Glinert has already been booked by the Lit & Phil, Central Library, the Portico Library, Hale WI… He had 65 people at Central Library for the Town Hall Murals recently and about 150 at Knutsford Methodist Church for Marx & Engels in Manchester. Continue reading →